In Western Europe we had a Latinized Christian culture with Rome as its capital.

在西欧，我们拥有以罗马为首都的拉丁化基督教文化。

So eventually thorn was  just replaced by the latinized TH spelling of the sound.

因此，最终 thorn 被声音的拉丁化 TH 拼写所取代。

It used to be common to translate all manner of names, scholars, like Copernicus, often published under Latinized names during the Renaissance in Poland where he was born.

在他出生的波兰文艺复兴时期，像哥白尼这样的学者经常以拉丁化的名字来翻译各种名字，这在过去很常见。